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From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: sched: avoid races on time values read
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:12:01 +0200
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On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 04:08 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While backporting this for 4.6 (which required substantial
> adjustment to the sched_rt.c part)=20
>
Yep, I figure it did. :-(

It sounds like you've pretty much done with it, but if not, and if you
want me or Meng to provide the backport, just ask!

> I noticed that there's another
> of the cases mentioned in the description in rt_vcpu_insert(). The
> commit message doesn't mention why this was left unchanged, so
> was not fixing this perhaps just an oversight?
>=20
It is indeed. I'll send a patch.

Sorry,
Dario
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